Intel's Bensley platform examined

As we said in our previous look at Intel's soon-to-be launched Bensley platform, the Blackford or Glidewell chipsets offer two major innovations compared to the Lindenhurst platform (E7520/E7320 chipsets). Dual independent buses (DIB) for each of the two processors, and a quad-channel memory controller that runs fully buffered DDR2 DIMMs (FB-DIMMs) are among the extras compared to their predecessor.